LeBron James won two NBA championships with the Miami Heat, in 2012 and 2013. Those titles were the first championships of his career.
James joined Miami in 2010 as part of a celebrated “Big Three” with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. The team reached the NBA Finals in his first season but lost to the Dallas Mavericks. Miami then won the 2012 Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, with James earning his first Finals MVP award.
The Heat repeated as champions in 2013 after defeating the San Antonio Spurs in a dramatic seven-game Finals. James again won Finals MVP. Miami reached the Finals for a fourth straight season in 2014 but lost to San Antonio in five games, ending the team’s run before James returned to Cleveland.
The number is often confused with James’s total career championships, which is four: two with Miami, one with Cleveland in 2016, and one with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. His Miami titles came in consecutive seasons.